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    Meet in Malta

    Jun 30, 2021 5 minutes
    WORDS TOM OTLEY
    PICTURED:
    Basilica of Our
    Lady of Mount
    Carmel, Valletta

    For those who appreciate history, Malta has all you could wish for in a destination, and probably much more than the Maltese wanted for themselves. Sieges, wars, ancient orders of Knights and attacking Ottomans, it has a maritime history stretching back into the mists of time with the Phoenicians and Carthaginians and would always have been a natural stopping-off point between Italy and North Africa.

    During the Second World War, Malta was the most bombed place on earth, enduring a near-continuous attack in 1942 lasting 154 days. Its museums have lasting tributes to the heroism of the Maltese, and the whole island was given the George Cross for valour by King George VI, which can be viewed in the National War Museum in Valletta, its capital.

    Today, Malta is a tourist destination – still, there’s a lot of competition in Europe for

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